VMworld PSA:
Don't eat the chicken. Seriously. Do not eat the chicken.
HP's decision to bail out of VMware's EVO:RAIL hyper-converged happiness project wasn't due to any dissatisfaction with the product. Instead, HP decided it could not ask its salesforce and channel to wrap their heads around EVO:RAIL and its own StorVirtual-based hyper-converged products, so chose to go it alone. So said Raghu …
You really have no idea what the hell you are talking about. For Network Virtualization HP has 3 distinct offerings each of which have content that is HP "Invent"'ed, something i learnt while doing all of 5 minutes of reading. NSX w/VMware, DCN w/Nuage and VCN which is a pure play solution for OpenStack enviro's...FYI i'm also involved in OpenStack, HP is the leading contributor. Read before speaking next time.